Hi, Kevin Peat wrote:
Well I think someone wanting a PD project would need to start from scratch anyway as it would be hard for them to demonstrate that any existing data wasn't encumbered with other licenses given the wide use of imports and tracing in lots of countries.
I think so too, but I think this is a problem that we don't need to solve now. Should the project want to change their license in 10 years, then they will have to think about that then.
It is quite possible that a data source which we have used for tracing and which makes certain demands at the moment, stops making these demands in the future (eg there might be a source that currently says "CCBYSA or ODbL use only" but in 5 years the company has another product which is twice as good, and thus decides to lift any license restrictions on the old, which would of course also lift the restriction on the data in OSM).
There's no reason to limit the options of a future OSM by perpetuating some currently existing outside restrictions which may cease to exist at any time.
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